Prayer for an Outpouring

DATE - June 4, 2022

TOPIC - Prayer for an Outpouring

BIBLE TEXT - On the day of Pentecost, seven weeks after Jesus’ resurrection, the believers were meeting together in one place. Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm in the skies above them, and it filled the house where they were meeting. - Acts 2:1-2

It had been seven long weeks of persevering prayer since Jesus had told the apostles to remain in Jerusalem until the Father sent the promised Holy Spirit. The uproar in the city concerning Jesus was increasing, and the pressures were mounting for Christ’s followers—even their lives were in jeopardy. Yet they didn’t frantically run around Jerusalem seeking help. They didn’t start a new building program or hire a church- growth consultant in an attempt to increase their numbers.

Instead, they stayed continually in the upstairs room in unified, wholehearted, fervent prayer. It was the plan and purpose of God to pour out his Spirit, but the believers’ prayers were the preparation for Pentecost. Through their prayers, God laid the tracks for the demonstration of the Spirit’s power that was to come. Down through history we can see the same pattern being repeated: prayer is the preparation for every powerful movement of God’s Spirit.

PRAYER

LORD, grant us the same unity and fervency in prayer that your followers had in the upper room. We long to see your kingdom expand, your Spirit poured out in power, and the accomplishment of your will and purpose in our time. Give us hearts that take an active role in “laying the tracks” for your Spirit’s work in our generation.

INSIGHT

Never has there been an outpouring of the Divine Spirit from God, without a previous outpouring of the human spirit toward God.

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